Vault front and door construction



.l. FREYBERG AND L. F. WUBBOLDlNG.

VAULT FRONT AND DOOR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1919.

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rates JOSEPH FREYBERG AND LEO F. \VUBBOLDIN G, 01 NE'WPOR' TO THE J. BAUIVI SAFE & LOCK COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI,

KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOBS OHIO, A CQRPQBATION VAULT FRONT AND DOOR CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4t, 1922..

Application filed August 18, 1919. Serial No. 318,230.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Josnrrr Fnnrenne and Lao F. vVUnBoLnINo, citizens, respectively, of Austria and of the United States, and residents of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Vault Front and Door Construo tions, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to vault construction and its object is to simplify and improve the construction of the front of the vault as well as economize in such construction and in that of the door which is to fit the vault front.

Our invention consists in the new and improved article of manufacture and in the process or method of making said article as well as in the combination comprising said article as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a vault construction embodying our invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the front at that stage of the process of making it wherein the door plate has been punched out therefrom;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of said door plate;

Fig. 4 is a similar View of said front in its completed stage; and

Fig. 5 is a partial inner view of the same.

Our improved vaultfront comprises the single sheet of metal 1 with the door opening punched therein so that. the sides 2, top 3 and bottom Q are integral without the necessity of any joints, fish-plates or the like at the corners. This makes a much simpler and neater and more economically produced front.

In the assemblage of this front with the other members of the vault construction it is required that the bottom 4 of the vault front be in the form of a horizontal flange extending back into the vault to rest fiat upon the vault floor or foundation as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The vault door comprises the plate 5 with a suitable inside frame 6 properly supporting the bolts '7 which are operated by suitable locking mechanism 8. stood that this door may comprise any approved inner construction; the only intimate concern here being with the plate 5 which is the part of the front plate which is cut out when the door opening is punched therein as is indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

After this the lower side of the flange 4 is bent down by suitable forming mechanism in a press, whereupon the vault front appears as in Figs. l and 5. This bending is done in such a position relative to the bottom of the door opening that the upper sur face of the flange 4 will be horizontally con tinuous with the bottom of the door opening. The door plate 5 may then have the other details applied to it and be hinged to the vault front 1 as by the hinges 9 in F i 1; the vault front 1 being suitably attached to the vestibule construction 10 which may be of any approved kind. I

Having fully described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A vault front comprising a flat plate or sheet having an interior portion of the metal of said plate cut therefrom to form a door opening and having the lower end of said plate bent along the lower edge of said opening to form a door plate.

2. The process of making a vault-front and door which comprises taking a single flat sheet of material, cutting an interior part of said material from said sheet, whereby the part out therefrom forms a door plate and whereby the opening thus left constitutes the door openin and then bending a flange on said sheet along the lower edge of said opening.

JOSEPH FREYBERG. LEO F. WUBBOLDING. lVit-nesses JAMES N. RAMSEY, J. SAeMEIsTER.

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